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Dr David Fong
I enjoy the opportunity of working with fellow health-workers in a culturally and linguistically diverse community in suburban Australia. When the opportunity arises, I also work and volunteer overseas.
I appreciate the opportunity to both learn and share knowledge with team-members and students in Australia and elsewhere, such as in China and Kenya.
I particularly enjoy examining clinical data, and considering how data may be used to improve patient care and improve clinical processes. I am continuing studies in how to use data and systems analysis to further the health of communities.
Education
Masters in Global Development Practice
Harvard University, Extension School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Current - 2019
- including “Data, Economics and Development Policy” micromasters (MITx) as credit
Data Economics and Development Policy Micromasters1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
edX
2019 - 2018
Drug and Alcohol Certificate Course
Monash University
Melbourne, Australia
2004 - 2004
Certificate of Integrative Medicine
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
2003 - 2003
International Health and Development Summer School
Tabor Adelaide
Adelaide, Australia
2002 - 2002
Fellowship in Advanced Rural General Practice
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Australia
2001 - 1998
- incorporating Graduate Diploma in Rural General Practice
Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners2
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Australia
2001 - 1998
- Registration number : MED0001157068
- details and registration available at Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency3
Certificate of Advanced Paediatric Life Support
APLS Australia
Australia
2000 - 2000
Diploma of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Royal Australian College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
N/A
1999 - 1998
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery M.B., B.S.4
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
1994 - 1989
Professional Experience
I have worked as a general practitioner in community health, a volunteer doctor in China, Kenya and Bangladesh and taught students and trainee doctors in Australia and China. I like collaborative environments where I can learn from my peers.
Medical practitioner
coHealth community health service
Kensington, Victoria, Australia
Current - 2003
- multidisciplinary primary care practice with a particular focus on people groups with relative disadvantage including risk of homelessness, mental health, substance use disorders and refugee and asylum seeker health
- lead doctor 2009 to present
volunteer doctor
Kibera, Kenya
Current - 2014
- data analysis (2014 - 2017)
- visiting doctor (January 2016 and January 2020)
volunteer doctor
Shaanxi, China
2019 - 2005
- Paediatric and general medicine
- Elim (HIV paediatric) and Shaanxi Agape Community Care Association (orphans and disability)
- direct patient care, working together with local doctors, training of local primary care physicians, community education
General practice (paediatric)
After-hours clinic Royal Children’s Hospital
Melbourne, Australia
2008 - 2007
volunteer doctor
Parbatipur, Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh
2003 - 2002
- General medicine
- Neonatal (level 2 nursery)
General practice
Viewbank Family Medical Group, Rosanna Medical Group
Viewbank and Rosanna, Australia
2002 - 2001
Opthalmology/ENT emergency resident
Eye & Ear Hospital
Melbourne, Australia
2001 - 2000
- VATGP (Victorian Advanced Training for General Practice) position – six months
General practice
Federation Health
Moe, Victoria
2000 - 2000
- Third term of General Practice Training Program (GPT3)
Paediatrics resident
Bendigo Base Hospital
Bendigo, Victoria
2000 - 1999
- VATGP (Victorian Advanced Training for General Practice) position – six months
General practice
Traralgon Medical Centre
Traralgon, Victoria
1999 - 1999
- Second term of General Practice Training Program (GPT2)
Obstetrics & Gynaecology resident
Latrobe Regional Hospital
Traralgon, Victoria
1999 - 1998
- General practice training program – six months
General practice
Heyfield Medical Centre
Heyfield, Victoria
1998 - 1998
- First term of General Practice Training Program (GPT1), Gippsland region
- small family medicine practice in a rural town of 2000 people, with attached bush nursing hospital
Hospital resident (HMO3)
Box Hill Hospital
Victoria, Australia
1998 - 1997
- Oncology, Emergency (Box Hill Hospital)
- Psycho-geriatrics (Peter James Centre)
- Emergency, ICU (Maroondah Hospital)
Hospital resident (HMO2)
Preston and Northcote Community Hospital (PANCH)
Victoria, Australia
1997 - 1996
- Emergency, Urology/Thoracic (PANCH)
- ENT and Opthalmology (Bendigo Base Hospital)
- Psychiatry (Larundel)
Hospital resident (HMO1) – Intern
Austin Hospital
Victoria, Australia
1996 - 1995
- General medicine, Emergency, Spinal (Austin Hospital)
- Geriatrics (Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital)
- General Surgery, Emergency (Maroondah)
Alfred Hospital auxiliary (volunteer)
Alfred Hospital
Prahran, Victoria
1990 - 1990
Teaching Experience
I have supervised healthcare students and junior doctors in Australia and China and lectured to community groups and doctors in China.
Community Teaching Assistant (TA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
edX
2019 - 2019
- Teaching Assistant for ‘Designing and Running Randomized Evaluations’
Selected Publications, Posters, and Talks
Assessment of vitamin D and its association with cardiovascular disease risk factors in an adult migrant population: an audit of patient records at a Community Health Centre in Kensington, Melbourne, Australia
N/A
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders vol. 14, Article number: 157
2014 - 2014
- authored with Thilanga Ruwanpathirana, Christopher M Reid, Alice J Owen, Usha Gowda, Andre M N Renzaho
Links
- https://micromasters.mit.edu/certificate/program/721e9a94ec5e2a866c7b5f56adbf4c38
- https://www.ahpra.gov.au/Registration/Registers-of-Practitioners.aspx?q=MED0001157068&t=I5UTt2InzNnIj48JB4xC
- https://www.ahpra.gov.au
- https://www.myequals.net/sharelink/638d1976-114b-4349-b5e6-83d2dda1d3a6/299bd932-b131-4491-a002-f1cfbec0c98e